When you inherit a lot of pictures, you are often missing information about a picture or 200. Sometimes, you find information written on the photo, or in the album it is in. It may be fairly complete – with date, place, and people. It may be only one of these pieces of information, it may be none. Sometimes, people are identified with nicknames or middle names.
Now that I had workable maps, it was time to get some tokens. “Tokens” in this sense means small pictures that represent a character or monster, and that can be moved around on the map. We use them to determine how far monsters and people can move in one turn, and who is in range to fight whom. In a face to face game you would typically use metal or plastic miniature figures for this purpose. On a virtual tabletop you use picture files.
Every other year, my local quilt guild has a show, and there is always a challenge project. It encourages people to create something special in a theme to share with the visitors. It often has restrictions as to size and other details.
My uncle Paul was born on April 1, 1939. He always seems to me to have the right sense of humor for someone born on April Fool’s Day.
In my last post, I wrote about converting my old campaign area maps from paper to digital. I needed digital maps so I could use them on a virtual tabletop. As you’ll recall, scanning them didn’t go very well.
But of course, campaign maps aren’t the only maps we have to deal with as a Game Master. We have to make dungeon maps as well. And so I scanned some dungeon maps along with the campaign maps to see how that would go.
When Walt or I are home during the day, we enjoy cooking dinner. When both of us have to work, we like to choose something that is quick and easy so that we are not eating dinner at 8 pm. One of my methods of dealing with quick, weekday meals is to make bigger batches of meals when I am home and freeze the extras for later.
Soups, chile, and spaghetti sauce are all easy ones to make big batches of and freeze, and we usually have several of these on hand. I also do casserole dishes and lasagna. When I make dishes like this, I prepare them in smaller pans. For example, I make lasagna in loaf pans, then freeze it before baking.
Elizabeth Wellman was born April 2, 1890 to Gerhard and Maria Wellman in West Point, Iowa.
She was born to German immigrants. Gerhard had come to America from Germany in 1884. Maria Kruempelmann had arrived in 1885.
Washington, DC (AP) In a move that has surprised many experts, the Department of Education today announced that it has begun proceedings to formally remove accreditation from the prestigious School Of Hard Knocks. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona announced the move at a hastily-assembled press conference on the White House lawn.
Until I started using Fantasy Grounds, my maps has usually been drawn freehand on either graph paper (for buildings and dungeons) or hex paper (for area maps). Most of these were simple floorplans, drawn with a mechanical pencil, though I would sometimes break out the colored pencils for area maps.
When I started the FG campaign I initially planned to simply continue drawing my maps by hand and running them through the scanner. But as soon as I tried it I could see the results were less than stellar. Here’s a sample:
No one who knows me is surprised by the fact that I love to cook and bake. I am not only interested in the end product but the ‘why things work as they do’. One of my favorite books is Cookwise by Shirley O. Corriher. It is subtitled “The Hows and Whys of Successful Cooking.”
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